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Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature [PDF]
The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, or Commission) considered amendments to Articles of its Constitution (ICZN 1999a) at a special session in Singapore, convened on June 3–7, 2019.
Secretariat ICZN
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Towards a sustainable, comprehensive and community-accepted nomenclature and naming standard of antibody and T cell receptor germline genes and alleles. [PDF]
Peres A, Ohlin M.
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The VGNC: expanding standardized vertebrate gene nomenclature
The Vertebrate Gene Nomenclature Committee (VGNC) was established in 2016 as a sister project to the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, to approve gene nomenclature in vertebrate species without an existing dedicated nomenclature committee.
Tamsin E. M. Jones +6 more
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The importance of being the HGNC
The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) has been providing standardized symbols and names for human genes since the late 1970s. As funding agencies change their priorities, finding financial support for critical biomedical resources such as the HGNC ...
Elspeth A. Bruford +5 more
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SummaryThis article presents a nomenclature system for allergens which has been officially recommended by the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS). The nomenclature is based on proposals of the IUIS Sub‐Committee for Allergen Nomenclature and is applicable to highly purified, well‐characterized allergens and to non‐purified or ...
D G, Marsh +4 more
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On the wrong continent: The identity of Catochrysops trifracta Butler, 1884 (Polyommatinae, Lycaenidae), currently a synonym of Euchrysops cnejus (Fabricius, 1798) [PDF]
It is shown that Catochrysops trifracta Butler, 1884, currently a synonym of the widespread old world Euchrysops cnejus (Fabricius, 1798) is a junior subjective synonym of the neotropical species Hemiargus hanno (Stoll [1790]).
Marianne Espeland
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The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee assigns unique symbols and names to human genes. The use of approved nomenclature enables effective communication between researchers, and there are multiple examples of how the usage of unapproved alias symbols can ...
Bryony Braschi +4 more
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This commentary is written in response to the recent article from Herring et al., discussing the eradication of the offensive term “retardation” from gene nomenclature.
Elspeth Bruford +1 more
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Critical appraisal of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: Implication of Janus-faced modernity [PDF]
The existing term non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has raised substantial concerns due to its inherent disadvantages of using exclusionary diagnostic criteria and the stigmatizing word ‘fatty.’ Three pan-national liver associations set out to ...
Gi-Ae Kim, Joon Ho Moon, Won Kim
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A unified nomenclature for vertebrate olfactory receptors
Background Olfactory receptors (ORs) are G protein-coupled receptors with a crucial role in odor detection. A typical mammalian genome harbors ~ 1000 OR genes and pseudogenes; however, different gene duplication/deletion events have occurred in each ...
Tsviya Olender +3 more
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